By: João Seguro
Great job detailing about the attribution. I always wonder how the attribution should be as most places don’t add this information.
View ArticleBy: Roel
Question: if I just use an idea seen on stackoverflow – like for instance I noticed that one solution for a given problem (how to prevent ‘killed messages’) was to use ‘wait’ in linux after sending a...
View ArticleBy: Roel
For people interested in this topic, please see http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/139698/re-using-ideas-or-small-pieces-of-code-from-stackoverflow-com/ In which I tried to further clarify some of...
View ArticleBy: Jones Handy
On the programmingfaq from w3ec i red that the data is pretty old. Is it still required to quote the author names? I quoted a few sentences but only linked back to stackoverflow. No clue where i find...
View ArticleBy: Keith Nicholas
So does this mean for every little code snippet you use off stackoverflow, you need to provide attribution? because, if so, that sucks!
View ArticleBy: Thom Priemon
I was adding friends to my account i am a jazz photographer and i recieved a warning for adding people i know…how can this be possible these are people i speak to often and are friends and acssociates...
View ArticleBy: Arun
So Can I sell a printed version of StackOverflow with all these attribution stuff you have mentioned here?! :)
View ArticleBy: Hemorrhoid
The blog post applies. if #2, then a single link to the site and a mention of where the data came from is probably all that is necessary. I think most of this is irrelevant until you begin publishing...
View ArticleBy: ChrisLamont
There are several great posts on SO that don’t fit the Q&A format and have been closed and deleted. I hear that these questions are available to users with 10K rep. How do I remix (with...
View ArticleBy: Jim Michaels
I If this is the license, I don’t see where it says anything about usage in my code. if I use this stuff in my code, will it conflict with the GPL3 License?
View ArticleBy: Jeff Atwood
Also, it looks like Google has put some serious smack down on that programmingfaq site. They barely appear in the Google indexes at all from what I can see (via the site: operator). And if you aren’t...
View ArticleBy: nobody_
Jeff, how do you suggest attribution of the data as a whole? I have distributed SQLite versions of the data dump with the following under a “copyright” section in the README file: copyright: the data...
View ArticleBy: Jeff Atwood
nobody_ hmm, well, I think there are two cases there 1) publishing the data 2) analysis of the data in aggregate if #1, the blog post applies. if #2, then a single link to the site and a mention of...
View ArticleBy: alex
Wow! The ‘latest post’ on hiveminds.se is one of my questions!!! And apparently, the people who answered my question are 1 and 2.
View ArticleBy: Jeff Atwood
Exactly… I could complain about incorrect attribution at these sites, but I basically have to issue a DMCA takedown notice if I can’t find an email address to complain to, or cannot get responses to my...
View ArticleBy: kibbee
In the end, stopping this kind of thing is impossible. Because you can’t serve a DMCA notice outside the united states. What do you do when the server is hosted on some server in China. Nothing. Not...
View ArticleBy: Dave
>>must attribute the work in the manner specified >>by the author or licensor Please post your ‘manner specified by the author or licensor’ somewhere. You know either on the stackoverflow...
View ArticleBy: Oscar Reyes
What about adding the attribution in the content it self ( haven’t seen the SO dump schema, but my guess is they are different fields ) By adding ( prepending or appending I don’t know ) the...
View ArticleBy: Ryan Fox
Why not make it easier to include this? Make a button that will generate some code that people can paste into their site that includes all of the information that you’d like them to use.
View ArticleBy: Stu Thompson
>2) analysis of the data in aggregate > >…if #2, then a single link to the site and a mention of where the data came from is probably all that is necessary. Whew! I was starting to feel...
View ArticleBy: Jeff
Jeff: I have to agree with Dave above. The Attribution portion of the cc-wiki license is reasonably clear that the you needed to make the attribution style clear. Since you did not do this up front,...
View ArticleBy: Boofus McGoofus
If it were my site, I’d have the cc-wiki link take you to a page summarizing the cc-wiki rules (and linking to the cc site) along with your attribution requirements. I usually want to find out how...
View ArticleBy: Chas. Owens
I have been thinking of posting some of my better answers in an edited form to a blog. Since I am the author of the post I assume I don’t have to worry about the license, but I am slightly worried...
View ArticleBy: Phil Bachmann
I agree with Dave et al, that you need to tell people clearly what copyright you’re asserting before you expect them to comply. It needs to be on every page of Stackoverflow, just as you currently have...
View ArticleBy: BobbyShaftoe
I expected that to happen. I always wondered why being able to get a data dump of the questions was such a “hot” feature. I mean unless you are going to build one of these “scammy” sites, I don’t see...
View ArticleBy: alex
ha! the ‘latest post’ is still my question! I wonder if they’ll merge the new data dump. And perhaps they might put correct attribution on it now.
View ArticleBy: nll
Hi, I am fan of stackoverflow and purchased stackoverflow.mobi in order to make your data dump available on mobile internet. I will be complying with your rules here and will make mobile site source...
View ArticleBy: Sarah
Is it all right if we import our own user RSS feed to Facebook? Our answers and questions will get posted there with a link back to Stack Overflow, but I don’t think “Stack Overflow” will be included...
View ArticleBy: Joel Coehoorn
I’m gearing up for a new StackQL.net release in anticipation of the October data dump. Coming back to and reading this again raised a question regarding StackQL.net (and by extension...
View ArticleBy: Carol
I agree. If someone takes the time to write something, then it is only fair to use them as a source versus stealing their work.
View ArticleBy: Pratik Stephen
Jeff, I don’t see any positive examples of attributions mentioned in your post. This will be a good easy guide for users! (Stumbled upon this while being frustrated looking for guidelines on CC-BY...
View ArticleBy: Anone Mouse
http://stackmobile.com/, both the current version and current beta, aren’t following points #2 and #4 above.
View ArticleBy: spidaboy7
Hello Jeff,i am redesigning my website to include question , answers and to include some tutorials too,however i like SOF design,look and feel,i was wondering if i could borrow some design from and SOF...
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